Mindfulness Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

MCBT-MBCT

The combination of Mindfulness and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy comes naturally. The mindfulness approach to increasing thought awareness or noticing one’s thoughts is the first step in changing thoughts. Mindfulness techniques provide a vast array of methods to the modification of thought and the influence on mood, feelings or emotions.

Mindfulness CBT is an approach that is utilized during sessions as well as provided as an educational approach providing clients with the tools to work these ideas and techniques into everyday life.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

CBT | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy | Cognitive Therapy

CBT, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Cnd), or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (US) is a counselling approach that is well known to be effective in treating many mental health concerns. There is a wealth of literature and clinical trials that support the effectiveness of CBT in helping persons through a vast array of mental health challenges such as: depression, anxiety, and emotional distress. The basis of CBT is that if one changes cognitions (thoughts) and behaviours (the things we do), one can change emotional response.

Mindfulness

Meditation | Mindfulness Meditation

Mindfulness is moving out of the active every-day worries of life, and shifting your attention to your experience of the moment. With this meditation-like technique, you draw the attention of all of your five senses into the moment you are in, right now. You shift your focus, away from the thoughts that come and go, into a single point of attention. A simple method is to focus on your breath, then become aware of your body, starting from the bottom of your feet, and notice each and every part as you experience it, occupying space and having sensation. Mindfulness becomes a mindfulness meditation.

Learn How to Apply Mindfulness Techniques

To use a mindful approach within the counselling session, Sandstone Counsellors guide clients into shifting focus. This focus shift is a skill, that can be learned with or without a guide. There are many techniques and ideas available to assist in this shift. Each person tends to develop preferences or may find that one way works better for them than another.

Becoming mindful of the moment, has a particularly calming effect that assists clients through the challenges they face in life. There are infinite applications to mindfulness.